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Twitter chat: Are apprenticeships more lucrative than a college degree?

Less than 1 percent of workers in the U.S. begin their careers as an apprentice, learning a trade and getting paid for it at the same time. Yet skilled apprentices in the U.S. earn more than some college graduate over a lifetime. 

Colorado is tackling the lack of skilled apprenticeships in the US, becoming the first in the nation to offer a statewide youth apprenticeship program, Careerwise Colorado. 

So will apprenticeships take off? What will it take to make that happen?

To learn more about apprenticeships and share your thoughts and questions, join in @NewsHour‘s Twitter chat on Thursday, August 31, at 1 p.m. EDT with Dr. Carnevale (@GeorgetownCEW); Noel Ginsburg, founder of CareerWise Colorado (@CareerWiseCO); Dr. Mary Alice McCarthy, director of the Center on Education and Skills with the education policy program at New America (@McCarthyEdWork); and Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed, who has reported on apprenticeships (@PaulFain).

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